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To: peterk who wrote (62083)	4/5/2007 3:19:17 PM
From: JeffreyHF	Respond to of 197252

Arbitration should result in a stay of Nokia`s anticipated chipset litigation. That would remove their market disruption leverage. At the same time, it won`t affect our GSM/GPRS/EDGE cases, because Nokia has never licensed those patents outside of multi-mode WCDMA.

To: peterk who wrote (62083)	4/5/2007 3:19:26 PM
From: JGoren	Respond to of 197252

Yup. The only real advantage of arbitration is speed. (Secondarily, privacy about the terms that are in the contracts.) It's not necessarily cheaper. and, as you point out, it has many disadvantages, including the one you mentioned. Of course, that has not prevented NOK from appealing an arbitration decision. I think the Vitelcom suit was arbitrated and NOK appealed the confirmation order.